United States National Research Council Rankings

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The United States National Research Council puts out a ranking of United States graduate programs about every 10 years, although the time elapsed between each new ranking has exceeded 10 years. The next rankings are expected to be published in September 2008. The new rankings have been released to universities (as of mid-March) but not to the public.


Top 15 universities by average of all scores
ranking 1995 University 1995 average score
1 Stanford 7.76
2 Berkeley 7.46
3 Michigan 7.31
4 Cornell 6.56
5 Wisconsin 6.44
6 UCLA 6.32
7 Texas 6.12
8 Columbia 6.07
9 Washington 6.05
9 Illinois 6.05
9 Penn 6.05
12 Harvard 6.00
13 Minnesota 5.78
14 Princeton 5.68
15 UChicago 5.66


Top 30 universities by average of nonzero scores
ranking 1995 University 1995 average score
1 MIT 8.70
2 Berkeley 8.50
3 Harvard 8.20
4 Princeton 8.03
5 Caltech 8.00
6 Stanford 7.95
7 UChicago 7.73
8 Yale 7.60
9 Cornell 7.47
10 UCSD 7.34
11 Columbia 7.32
12 Michigan 7.24
13 UCLA 7.19
14 Penn 7.09
15 Wisconsin 6.95
16 UTexas
17 UWashington
17 Illinois
19 Northwestern
20 Duke
20 Johns Hopkins
22 Carnegie Mellon
23 Minnesota
24 North Carolina
25 Brown
26 UC Irvine
27 NYU
28 Virginia
29 Purdue
30 Arizona